From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.
1.3M
total occurrences
482.0K
since 2019 (37.6%)
1970–2023
years active
Case variants in archive: .tab (1.3M), .TAB (13.3K), .Tab (165), .tAB (1) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to TSV as primary by 1 authoritative claim.
Authoritative sources:△ Linguist · secondary✗ Pygments · no claim✓ Wikidata · Q3513566✗ Wikipedia · no claim
File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL
entities that claim .tab on Wikidata
(property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox.
Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv.
Click Use as new PL on any row to open the
Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata
URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Real archived programs with this extension, byte-verified against the SWH archive. Useful for deciding what this extension actually is when the attribution is uncertain.